Abstract

The management literature has highlighted the role of a manager’s gender in adopting and practicing managerial innovation. The conditions that affect female (or male) managers’ decision making on innovations, however, have been less explored. Using a national survey of top-level administrators in US nursing homes and archival nursing home quality data, this study examines how performance information shapes gender differences in managerial innovation adoption. We find that female managers are more likely to adopt innovations relative to male managers, particularly when they perform better than they have in past years. Our findings, however, do not support a gender difference in innovation adoption when a nursing home performs worse than other competing organizations. The findings provide important implications on how a manager’s gender produces systematic differences in innovation adoption related to performance information.

摘要

管理文献强调了管理者性别在采用和实践管理创新中的作用。然而，影响女性（或男性）管理者创新决策的条件却很少被探索。本研究使用对美国疗养院高级管理人员的全国调查和疗养院档案质量数据，检验绩效信息如何影响管理创新采用中的性别差异。我们发现，女性管理者比男性管理者更有可能采用创新，尤其是当她们的表现比过去几年更好时。然而，当疗养院的表现比其他竞争组织差时，我们的研究结果不支持创新采用的性别差异。